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Xbox One Hardware/UI Review Thread
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ChosenPredator
Banned
lol thats badass
Ricerocket
Member
Deadly Joker
Member
Damn.
Nightengale
Member
I thought this was really awesome until they showed the lag. Meh.
Dat UI hnnnng!This is the UI that people claim is objectively superior to the PS4 UI?
It's full of squares and transition animations.
oooh aaaah waaah
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Interesting things to read from Leadbetter of all people.
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
They did the same thing for PS4 as well?
Strange... you can't knock them on not being consistent I guess :/
Aw... fucking lag makes it useless
Kinect voice still sounds like it's complete ass too. I'll need to play the waverace game to see if it's completely a throwaway like Kinect 1.0.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
statham
Member
redbox instant deserves no better,
Well, we did see earlier today during their shareholders meeting where they demoed Kinect that it failed 34% of the time.
Fair and balanced.
I think it's safe to say we all saw this coming.
Eurogamer - "Pre-launch rumours about Snap being broken appear untrue though - it worked as intended on the beta build we saw in August and it's virtually unchanged here - it's just that actual applications for it are fairly limited right now."
"We measure a peak of 125W consumed during gameplay and a 49 degrees Celsius case temperature (directly above the processor, so effectively the exhaust), in an ambient 23-degree environment - as close as we could get to our PlayStation 4 testing. That's 15W off our measured PS4 peak and almost the same temperature level. The difference is noise: Xbox One is a remarkably quiet machine - virtually silent during front-end and media tasks and even at maximum load after several hours' worth of Ryse gameplay (curiously, Forza 5 appears to draw 10W less). It's to the point where the Blu-ray drive actually seems to make more noise than the cooling system, which is good news for gamers (after the game has installed anyway)"
Sounds good to me.
"We measure a peak of 125W consumed during gameplay and a 49 degrees Celsius case temperature (directly above the processor, so effectively the exhaust), in an ambient 23-degree environment - as close as we could get to our PlayStation 4 testing. That's 15W off our measured PS4 peak and almost the same temperature level. The difference is noise: Xbox One is a remarkably quiet machine - virtually silent during front-end and media tasks and even at maximum load after several hours' worth of Ryse gameplay (curiously, Forza 5 appears to draw 10W less). It's to the point where the Blu-ray drive actually seems to make more noise than the cooling system, which is good news for gamers (after the game has installed anyway)"
Sounds good to me.
DTLIONS1013
Member
Looks like Polygon didn't like Ryse :/
statham
Member
we also saw tak other time it worked much better.
BronsonLee
Member
JESUS.
Ass storm hit? Get your ponchos?
That Totlio tweet is absurd. That can't be right. What the fuck
Ass storm hit? Get your ponchos?
That Totlio tweet is absurd. That can't be right. What the fuck
Black Republican
Member
That Eurogamer review of the PS4 & X1 did the best reviews imo
FinalStageBoss
Banned
seems like the voice features have a loong way to go
Peter Bazooka
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DevelopmentArrested
Banned
Watched the polygon review and the best thing they could muster about the system is that saying "xbox watch tv" really works
Zzzz
That UI looks cluttered and awful.
Zzzz
That UI looks cluttered and awful.
Don't read too much into this review.
Dragonborn
Member
Why do people say the X1 UI look better? I just don't get it, it's so cluttered, like there's just too much going on. Maybe it's just me, but I don't like the way it looks at all.
Everything gets fixed, eventually. These are simply things that will impede Microsoft's progress in proving it deserves to be a competitor. The longer it takes for them to fix it, the more it'll be a problem. Right now the problem level is minimal.
Some of these quotes...damn
"So voice control becomes the default input interface. On the one hand this is great, because it works. On the other hand, though, it's not so great, because the main reason you're driven towards voice input is the counter-intuitive design of the user interface. It's something of a departure from Sony's simple but effective PS4 dynamic menus (where, despite the name, everything remains where it should be), and while it helps that you can take your favourite selectables and "pin" them into an area that lives to the left of the home screen, the pins feel like they're there to make up for the illogical structure of the UI."
"So voice control becomes the default input interface. On the one hand this is great, because it works. On the other hand, though, it's not so great, because the main reason you're driven towards voice input is the counter-intuitive design of the user interface. It's something of a departure from Sony's simple but effective PS4 dynamic menus (where, despite the name, everything remains where it should be), and while it helps that you can take your favourite selectables and "pin" them into an area that lives to the left of the home screen, the pins feel like they're there to make up for the illogical structure of the UI."
That's incredibly odd.
PaulExcellent
Member
Holy hell that UI looks really lame. :/
Agent Icebeezy
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I've never had problems with the first Kinect, I fail to see how this one could be worse than that. I wouldn't consider myself to have perfect audio setup either.
The PS4 article works the same way...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this system seems like a hot mess right now, we've only had warning signs for how many months now? I know they'll finish adding features sometime next year but I wonder if they'll ever fix all the other issues like the lagging and Kinect being inaccurate with receiving commands.
"The Ron Weasley of consoles."
Chobel
Member
WTF?! How can Ars say that?